HARRY KANE STINKER | England v Norway REVIEW

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1:06I will say, by the way guys, if you're watching this, we are currently watching Argentina-Switzerland right now. Argentina are 1-0 up. So whatever happens determines the fate of our semi-final. We're going to be facing Switzerland in the semi-final. Let's face it. If there's magic here, we've got a crazy run. Are we just skipping all the fact that we're into the fucking semi-final, lads? Wow. No, we're not. We're not. But I was trying to give context as to fuck that shit. What am I saying? Lou. Come of the man. Cometh the man Cometh the hour Cometh the hour Should we just do 30 minutes of Miami Jude Bellingham Propaganda Cometh Jude Bellingham The answer always was Who is Jude Bellingham Let's go Come on Come on Come on Come on Randy's here for a live show In there For good for the good See on that video That was Harry Rota Shaw Saying Jude Bellingham Yeah we will see This is We've had me being too drunk On one of these England pods We've had Theo being too drunk On one of these England pods And we now have Reeves turn of being the drunkest all day can i just say the worst thing you have to say someone when they're too drunk you're so offensive i'm so excited that we're through to the you've been called red face bro it's not offensive i'm just making a funny observation are you happy that we're through to the semi-final no i'm fuming mate all right good are you pure euphoria i've never shot i've never right that's not how you podcast right let's talk about it dude bellingham's the best to ever do it ever when the game finished did you take a minute no i'm I'm going to say, but Elv, you know when the game finished and the sunset started setting and the sunlight overcame the stadium.

2:37That's how I know the universe is on our side. It felt like I don't believe in Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior and all this jazz. But when I looked over, now something's saying, something's happening. This is a side. And you know what? Can I just say, this might be Elvore knowledge in the chat, but I think Wonderwall's actually helping us win. I think they won. Absolutely. No, I agree. I'm overjoking. They look forward. I agree with him. you want i agree with the end of the game they take it all in the like i want to hear they want to hear that at the end of the game bro yeah it's magical it's not like what the is doing here he's won the world cup

3:24guys just a warning this pod is going to be a bit more eventful Oh yeah, he is. Yeah, this is the most careful I've ever done. I think this one excuse to get the abs. As a neutral, yeah. Whatever. Pain-boring, look at him. As a neutral, did you enjoy the game? Oh, unbelievable. Dude's just fucking close. He's so good, man. He's just a guy, isn't he? He really is. There's no hate in that, man. So we, right, should we actually talk about the performance? I want to go on record saying, I love that we won, obviously. I'll sit for a minute. No, I'll try and do a podcast. Try and do a podcast over here.

3:55On the football, I want to say I love we won it's unbelievable buzzing some big performances out there don't you pull me down bro don't you fucking pull me down what I will say is Tushal Tushal was correct in his post game interviews where we weren't actually good enough today oh Nussle's doing the whole thing where he thinks he knows about football he's copying Tushal mate thank you oh Ree this is a fucking deep effort it's going to be a painful part three but talk about football alright Lou I will say Lou we are going to come on to that because that is a very big talking point but I think we're skipping a little bit too far ahead right there, I'd say.

4:29Well, I just went into that. Yeah, me and you will come into that. Let's throw it back. Let's start the game. How did you feel like the first half went? It was slow. Because it was a bit, it was on the slow side. We always are, though. I feel like you, for example, you're quite negative. But I'm like, every game has been like this. Do you not feel that every knockout game we've done has just felt like a final in itself? Yeah. That's why we play like that. Because we don't want to go down early. That's the problem. The first half for me is they wanted us to have possession and to try and catch us.

4:57We had possession in handfuls, but did nothing with it. But they did catch us with a goal. And then after that goal, it did spiral into some sort of crazy back and forth game. And that's where we - By the way, let me finish. By the way, let me finish. Just a cross for one. Let me finish. Bye, John. Good to see you. We're seeing the pool in a second. Let me finish, Reeve. So once they scored, there was actually a bit of back and forth. It was a bit crazy both sides. and that's where we got our chance to stop. That's yours. When a team wants to sit back against us, they can stop us, which is the concern.

5:29Yeah, I get that. But I do think early, like first 20 minutes, they weren't in our half. They literally were not in our half. They don't mind that. Because we weren't in danger. I've been in that camp of being like, we can't break down low blocks. Like anyone that sits in against us, we just pour against them, right? But the fact that we went out and took the second half to ourselves shows that we're actually going to compete in the tournament. They should have had a goal in the second half. No, they did have a goal We should have had a pen No, but their goals should have counted Kane scored by like a centimetre Like that was really close We both had our like fumble Do you not think that first half Went exactly how Norway wanted that game to work?

6:04Yes, of course But the game went exactly how I was expecting As we expected But AB, you're right You can't get away with winning the game By fluking a cross goal No, it was a fluking The game went The first half Lou, do you not think the first half Went exactly how Norway wanted However we still were going to be the only ones to score. Does that make sense? Can we be fair though? Can we be fair? Our goal shouldn't have counted. It shouldn't have counted. Why? Our first goal it hit up that gate that ball should have been reset. What so Sunderland shouldn't have got their goal against Liverpool?

6:37Yes. It's a beach ball. Is it in play? No. The rule state it should count. If we were playing Padman it would be fair enough but we're not. The rule state is the ball should be played as a drop ball if it interacts with anything else. Not in my mind mate. No, it's an English fan. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. It's what you fucking get. We're a better team. We play better. Give me five seconds. Right. Sit there, sit there, sit there. What have you got on your face right now? It's an English cross. Yeah. So how about you fucking shut the fuck up and say we're through to the semi-final.

7:10That's a short pod though, isn't it? You have to be so negative. We played really well in Spurs. I want to say, I'm not being negative. I'm talking about the game. You're deep in it way too long. I want to say Anderson, phenomenal. He was great. I do think every time Anderson's on the ball, he doesn't have a mistake. I feel so safe from Anderson on the ball. Do you know what? Do you know what? Hold my baby. I'd throw my baby across the room at him. I'd throw my dick at him. Can I add to that? This sounds really cringe to compare it to this, but it's not when you give Chris and Dean the ball in a charity match.

7:40You feel safe. No, it is. You feel safe. No, no, no. I know. I 100 % know he's sat right next to him. because like I'm sat next to you yeah but you won't know yeah but you play further up than Anderson you know Stinker in France you play further up I will say like every time Elliot's on the ball we don't lose position Elliot like you boys are then to add to that for excluding Jude Bellingham our best player on the pitch was probably John Stones he was but he was unreal who was the other best player Jed Spence was a fucking joke Jed Spence I am so sorry for ever fucking downing you DJ Ed, you're the fucking goat by the way.

8:17That was the best substitute performance I've ever seen from a person in English. Apart from Dan Burn against Metzgo. That Dan Burn header, I probably celebrated like Jett Spencer's score. Do you guys think that Gahey and Stones locking up Haaland has anything to do with the fact they all play for the city? They do training drills against him all the time. Well, Cox is still playing but he's right, man. I don't necessarily think that. I think Haaland had a little bit... he didn't have too much no i get it i get it because like erling i love you man but just like me i had no service in the ground as well no yeah no i was i was a part i don't think harland had much like he didn't have any much come his way like the one thing that did come his way he scored and it was wrongfully ruled off no that he did that was that that wasn't harland do right okay on that foul let's do you watch the game on that foul i thought it was how to put away It was a foul.

9:11It's a different blonde guy in a bank post, mate. Didn't we think that was a foul? Yeah, it was a foul. He pushed him to the floor. I've not seen it. I think it was harsh, man. I think it was harsh. Have you reached what roles? It feels like I'm... Luke, can I say something? 100 % it's soft, but it is a foul. He pushed him to the floor. I think it's harsh. It's 100 % a foul. But also, if we're going to... No, no, no, no. Look, it's two hands. No, it's soft. It's soft. It's going to get given. Two things can be right at the same time. It's soft, but it's definitely a foul. I don't disagree, yeah.

9:38You've seen it happen to your club. What? You've seen it happen to your club. Well, sorry, not your club, but like Gabriel did it against Spurs. Same thing, pushing the back, you fall over. Well, no, this is the issue. As soon as you use two hands, it's a foul. Gabriel won against Jolenton. As soon as you used two hands, but it was light. But I will say conversely, I feel like that was a penalty. No. Jed Spence, yeah, DJ Ed. Yeah, probably. From where we were sat, for sure. That was a pen. By the way, I was... I think it was. You know Trossard? It was a pen. Trossard's obviously lookalike's the ref, right?

10:09I think he's probably the best referee in the world. I don't know if you guys agree with me on that one. I don't watch enough referees. I understood why he said it was no foul, but also at the same time, like, yeah, DJ... Yeah, but he gave it. The referee on field gave it. It's not clear and obvious to overtime. I agree, I agree. But isn't that not what a player's meant to do? You're trying to get... Your advantage is getting in front of your defender and he's taking him out. He doesn't want to go. Correct, yeah. So would it be a free kick anywhere else on the pitch? It would be And the thing is It was given on field You've just argued my argument Yes Yeah you're agreeing It was given But I'm saying He's the best referee I've ever seen Therefore But I don't agree with him this one Yeah but guess what I agree with his original decision He gave it on field So therefore the VAR were wrong Because they shouldn't have overturned He shouldn't have overturned In the leader In the leader to that No he gave it though He gave it on the field Jets Ben smoked like four of them Yeah mate He fucked them all He fucked them Alright lads On a more positive note Once again it's Jude Bellingham Yes He's a legend No, not once again.

11:06Legend. Twice again. Well, six times again. It's coming home with us. And do you know what, that second goal, I was so happy that Morgas at least just, just have a fucking shot because that's what happens. Like a lot of what we do is - We saw it in the Belgium game. Yeah, a lot of what we do is we pass it around the box. Spain won by a keeper fumble. We pass it around, Roger's one of the few that would actually do that. Yeah, he would, yeah. He actually, he loves a little fucking move. Just pass it around the box half the time and then cross it in. But this time he actually shot. As soon as Roger's got it at the edge of the box, we all said, shoot, he did it.

11:33we got a goal from it because he does that Morgan just shoots from distance also Rhys James coming on in midfield and then he moved in back to right back and subbed who is it he got on in midfield Jed Jed went in midfield though no no Rhys James came back to right back Jed Spence went into midfield that was good watch we clicked after that I think he substitutes he absolutely nailed I do understand Lewis's qualms of being like the manager knows what he's doing but also at the same time he cooked correctly Like the reason we won Was because of Tuchel And he's also angry Everyone was a bit Everyone was a bit confused Everyone was a bit confused About what subs were going on And then after five minutes Oh Yeah Masterclass Everything makes sense This guy is Yeah he's a winner This guy is such an elite tactician He's going to be the first Foreign manager to win a World Cup By the way Can I say one thing Right so Tuchel came out After the game And he said that Oh congratulations And he said He didn't think the performance Was Oh yeah He didn't think the performance Was good enough And look like You just were showing me In the car for saying I actually agree with him Like I don't think It's a bad thing As an England fan to say Get in We're through the final That is all that matters now Let me finish Let me finish That's all that matters now Yes But the long run What Tuchel's looking at right now Is we're going to have to play France Problems and solutions And will that Will that beat France No So we have to I understand this performance Doesn't matter In the mind right now But we have to prepare To beat France I said the same thing In the group stages We face Argentina next But Yeah but Yeah, France are the end one.

13:03Lewis, everything you're saying is what I said against Panama and Ghana, thinking that we didn't have enough, right? But moving forwards, it's a knockout game only. Like, you only play one game. No, but Reeve, we were lucky today. We were lucky today. Lou, you know you said... We got... We roared our luck quite a lot. Yeah, but... Let me say, it got to squeaky bum time, and we were all over them. Extra time, they did fucking nothing. We were all over them. No, it's true. That's true. It wasn't a fluke. We just... I agree with that. and we just dominated. I wouldn't say a fluke, but I would say I wouldn't have been surprised if we lost that game today.

13:35It wasn't like it went to pens, but. We have never won a game in this tournament where we're like two nil and we're just happily going through. But that's not England. It wouldn't be the country we know in London if it was easy. It's an emotional roller coaster every time. Also, we don't care. Norway are a really good side. They are a fantastic team. Really good side. But I back Tuchel, I back Tuchel saying, despite this win, instead of riding the high saying, oh yeah, saying it's not good enough. Wait, what's that? They've got a robot to play. What's that? Let me carry on. Let me flip that back onto you.

14:01Does that not give you confidence as a manager to know what the problems are moving forwards? What? As in like, Tuchel coming out and saying, this is what went wrong. Does that not give you confidence for the semi and the final? I do think. Knowing that he knows what went wrong. I think the issues though have been quite the same. Do you know what I think? I think his issues that he's raised after most games are like we move it too slow. I agree. I do agree with that. It's frustrating at times, but I will say moving forwards, the things that he's posing as a possible problem for the team. We're still beating the teams moving...

14:32We're beating team on team on team. Can I just say that? Lewis, can I not just say something? Do you not think that... I actually... You know Jude's response in the... Yeah. I think it's valid as well because he can only do what he's getting told. Yep. I side with Jude on this because, yeah, Tuchel, exactly what he said, has a point, right? 100 % he's incorrect. I just think pick and choose your moments, man. Well, he's the boss, isn't he? We've just won an extra time against Norway. I agree with that. You don't need to do that. Especially Jude. Wrong place, wrong time. All of them have run. They're absolute socks off to grind this win out.

15:05Just let them have the moment. Tomorrow morning. Maybe tomorrow do it. Exactly. And then you get to work. Do you see what I'm saying? I understand what you're saying, but I don't necessarily disagree. But what I will say is like, Tuchel knows what he's doing. He's like, let me finish. I didn't say anything. You almost started. Yeah, I can't. You almost started. Tuchel's literally the top level manager. Of course. So if he's doing it right after the match, after he knows all the things you said, he's doing it for a reason. He's doing it while they're hot to ignite a bit of something. Can I get some context?

15:35What did he say? He basically said that... He actually defended them when the reporter was trying to say he's a downer mentality. He was like, no, that was all mentality. But he said the performance wasn't good enough. They didn't execute his tactics. That's what I said to you. I was like, bro, don't think about tactics. England win on vibes. We do. We do. Also, Lewis. Do you not think the fact that we still bowed through and got through to the next round... regardless of what he's angry about, still means that the team is good enough to win the competition. The whole thing is, mate, you have to do it against France.

16:03That is the end goal. And Argentina. That's what you get to Argentina, bro. You've got to play one team, get through it, and then you get one team and you get through it again. But that's something that we as fans can look at and say it doesn't matter. But as a manager, Tuchel, he's looking at the end goal. Which gives me confidence to know that he knows what the fucking actual real bottom line is. Yeah. And that's the bottom line. No, but that's why I agree with Tuchel. because I'm looking at France as well. I'm saying, look. Argentina as well. Well, even so. But even so, Theo, to even get through the semifinal to a final, that's not a successful time for England is to win.

16:35I agree. Luke, to counter you, you know how you said, and I do agree to a certain extent, how you trust Tuchel of what he's doing and how he's going about after the game. But do you not think, though, like, judging by Jude's response there in the interview, he's sort of pissed off a few players. Yeah, but Jude's carrying his friends. Do you see what I'm saying? I don't think he's pissed off. That rattled him. You saw it rattled him. I don't think it was rattled at players. I think it was rattled at Tuchel. Yeah, that's my point. They rattled. Oh, you don't know, Tuchel's pissed off players. Yeah, maybe so.

17:09But I think that might be what he was after, though. I think Tuchel's after getting a bit of reaction. But no matter what, as a player, you're going to be like, if anyone's saying anything negative about a win, you're just going to be like, A top level manager after scraping a win, which is technically what we did, will always criticise people for not being good enough in their department. Therefore, moving forwards, people know what the minimum standard is to be good enough. He's planned for domination. He's trying to win the tournament. Surely just pick and choose, though, your moments. Nobody knows what he's doing.

17:43I agree it should have been tomorrow, but I also agree in the sentiment that some people today weren't good enough. Mate, Tuchel knows what he's doing. Who do you think wasn't good enough? Who do you think wasn't good enough? Maduweke when he was on was really poor. I'm not going to pick and choose. I actually really enjoyed watching England today because they powered through. But Maduweke wasn't good enough. I thought Gordon was pretty poor. Gordon was good before he went off. I don't even want to call him out because he's going to get knighted. But I thought Kane was pretty poor. He was. He didn't see much in it at all.

18:16That wasn't Harry Kane of Mexico. He put in a bit of a defensive shift there. I'm not going to lie. He won the ball a lot. late game well gordon was really sorry he was dire hey sorry maybe maybe i maybe i've miscontruded that i don't think he wasn't good i just don't think he was at the level of the mexico game and if that's what that that level of how we played against mexico is the team that is going to win the tournament if we play like that yeah but all right well rice is the rice is the fifth top chance creator in the tournament and he didn't play either well either so right in defense of rice though you you saw against mexico like i'm not trying to call people out i'm just trying to say that this guy is some people weren't at the level of the previous round that's not even a but also fatigue is a real thing and you saw declarize today we've all said it for the last couple of games he looked he looked absolutely shattered he's absolutely cooked his deliveries he's brilliant and he's on a yellow his set pieces again today just weren't like what you expect from The O 'Reilly sub was good.

19:17You were right, they don't beat the football team. The O 'Reilly sub was good because a lot of their chance creation came from the Ryan side. I thought the O 'Reilly substitution was a good one. I thought bringing him off was probably for the best. Do you think Ryan had a bad game? No, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't say that. I think bringing him off on a yellow was a good thing to do. I genuinely don't think anyone had a bad game. No, apart from... As a team. The expectations for Kane are obviously high. Yeah, I get that. In Kane's sort of realm, it was a bad game. Yeah, I see what you're saying on that one.

19:43But in general The game sort of went How we all thought I'm on the side of positivity I think England Were a good team today The only person I'd say was actually stinky That's a tough opposition The only person I'd say Was actually stinky Was Madowake But he wasn't on long enough If he was on the rest of the game He could have had a good game Sometimes he was shit But for what he was on It wasn't great No end product Dead balls Yeah he was struggling Out there today He kind of just Continues to do the same thing Over and over again Yeah he does that And then doesn't realise That it doesn't work And then just like Overall we are through I'm just, it's weird.

20:16We've managed to get this stage of the tournament. We still haven't actually shown like what the best England is. We still haven't. I disagree. I disagree. I don't understand what you're looking for. We're never going to look like France. We're never going to look like these teams. It's just different style of football. Spain keeps the balls. Argentino have a bit of magic. England, we just scrape by. We win off bad. It's just how we are. It's just how you can't, you can't try to change the DNA. To play the counterpart, right? I don't think we've been good for two of the, well, now three of the games of the tournament, but two calls Chelsea won the Champions League and they weren't the best team in that.

20:48A lot of it was Lampard, but yeah. Can I just say, can I just say, do you know what I mean? If you come away with silverware at the end of the competition, it doesn't matter how you get there because you fuck it, like you scrape through one, you beat another team by a lot. And let me say, winning on a bad day is really great. It wasn't our day. Yeah, 100%. You know how you said you haven't seen the best of England? I actually disagree with that wholeheartedly. Mexico. I actually think we've seen the best of England and that is mentality monsters. When the backs are against the wall, we come out on top and we've seen that against Mexico and we've seen it against Norway already.

21:20Honestly, this is this England team. No, I agree. We're not going to go in there and win like a France. We're not going to go batter team. It's going to be hard but we're going to grind out results and we're going to do it. No, it's not a problem. That's what it does. I was not a fan, I mean. It's not fun to watch as a fan but you've got to go into an England game expecting nerves and expecting it to be up and down because that's part of the magic. I would say our mentality as a team, I don't think we've ever been more solid in any other tournament than we have this time. I agree. It is, and that is what is dragging us through.

21:51But that's why I'm not frustrated, but that's why I'm like, if we can just match that with just a little bit more quality, moving that ball just a bit quicker, that's what Tisha's talking about. If we had another player with the ego of Bellingham, we'd be flying. If Alize fucking claimed he was English, bearing in mind he was born in Reading. You look at France and they've got the egos like Mbappe, Elisa these players are just like they care about the gram they want just a screamer on TikTok but no they don't but like I feel like Bellingham's the first England player we've had in a long time that actually just wants to like soak it in and make it about him and it's the only thing we've missed it makes it just not boring not boring content really yeah I fucking love Jude Do you know just to just to like I don't want I'm not trying to go at you but like just to count on what you're saying do you not think that everything's irrelevant because we've got through to the next game.

22:41No, no, look, I feel like everyone's getting me wrong here. I'm not trying to... I'm trying to play... I'm just trying to pause a conversation rather than us being all like, yeah, England's in the semis. Don't get me wrong. We're into the semis. I fancy us against Argentina. I agree. I agree. Going into today, we're a ridiculously hard game because they have literally nothing to lose. I'm just trying to pause that question because I do think there's like... I don't think the performance today was great at all. or we scraped our way through. Just to ask you the question again, do you not think, from what you've seen from the post-match interviews, Tuchel knows that now?

23:19I think he knew it for a few games. He said the similar, the thing is, he says the similar stuff where it's like the ball's moving too slowly and like, but that might be fatigue. Like when you've played so many games and you're being asked to move the ball quick, it's such a high work rate. In a competition of this magnitude, every knockout round is the final. Like you play one game, you have to get through to the next game. You play it pragmatically rather than just like going out all guns blazing trying to beat everyone. So England for me actually played in a manner that I thought, fair enough.

23:49No, but that's not what Tuchel's wanted clearly though. No, I know, I know. But I'm saying as a fan, I'm saying as a fan, like, I've watched England in the group stage of this tournament and been like, I'm so frustrated. This is dog shit. Yeah, but now the scoreline's the only thing that matters. The bottom line is the fact that we can't through to the next round. No, my only revolver to that argument is, do you think that performance beats France? No, not at all. I feel like That's what it is That's what the Because the aim is to win We can't get there first You have to get there first We can't think We can't think We're going to Tactically dismantle France If we beat France It's some freak Fucking luck magic And we know that It doesn't have to be that though It doesn't have to be that though It does It doesn't We're good enough To beat France I don't think we are Every England game Has been on the same vibe Like today wasn't Much different to Mexico Or the other games We've watched right Tuchel knows exactly What he's got He knows exactly What he's dealing with If he knows what his players can do, it is going to be magic to beat France.